WASHINGTON POST
By Niraj Chokshi
April 30, 2014

Illinois’s residents are not very happy with their state.

Fewer than one in five feel it’s the best (or among the best) state in which to live, a distinction it shares only with Rhode Island, as we reported last week. And a new Gallup poll shows that exactly half the state wants to get out.

Every other Illinois resident would move out of the state if they could, a bigger share than in any other state, according to the survey. Though, at 49 percent, Connecticut was a very close second. In Maryland, 47 percent of residents wanted out. And the same was true for more than 40 percent of people living in Nevada, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Louisiana.

Illinois residents don’t just say they want out, though, they’re also among the most likely to act on it. Exactly 20 percent of Nevadans say they are extremely or very likely to move out of state in the next year, more than any other state. But Illinois and Arizona are right behind with 19 percent expecting the same.

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